I<3wm

Motivation

There are lot of windows managers and graphical interfaces. Those used in standart Linux distros are quite usable (most of them) and customizable. MacOS X GUI sux, Windows GUI sux a lot. i3wm is one those you will love if you have a need to have it lightweight, customizable and have at least one evening to discover all the posibilities. We are using i3wm for some time and have a tips and reasons why we love it. This page is intended to be a yet another one place to exchange cool tips on i3wm customizations.

Never ever use “setxkbmap cz && setxkbmap us” from command line or you will broke the setup. In case it happened re-run the whole setxkbmap command with all options from i3 config (see above). There You fixed it!

Desktop screenshots

PrintScreen to take a screenshot and open it via gimp for the subsequent editation

Transparent windows

Compton is an compositor for X server. I've choose to use “,” and “.” keys to control transparency of the currently focused window, because on US keyboard there are “<” and “>” characters on the same physical keys.